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FasterWeb Wants To Make The Entire Web Up To Ten Times Faster In 2010

Posted July 20, 2009 11:13 AM

From TechCrunch:

As the web matures, it's also getting more complex. Yet much of it is still fundamentally based on things like HTML which are 30 years old. A new startup, FasterWeb, aims to bring these old technologies up to speed — as it were — making the web faster, by optimizing the old standards for doing new things. And in doing so, it claims that it can increase the performance of any site by 2 to 10 times — something which would obviously be a huge leap forward, if it can deliver.

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Re: FasterWeb Wants To Make The Entire Web Up To Ten Times Faster In 2010

07/20/2009 11:35 PM

HTML was first described by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. He may have thought similar thoughts as far back as 1980.. but 1991 was the first html defining document. see here.

Chris

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Re: FasterWeb Wants To Make The Entire Web Up To Ten Times Faster In 2010

07/21/2009 7:27 AM

HTTP wasnt used as a network protocol standard untill 1999. IP has been around since 1969 when ARPA was using it to connect its defense grid (ARPANET) to its non-millitary use network (MILNET) which is basically what started the internet.

I think their referring to the Network and Transport layer when they describe it as being 30 yr old Tech. I think the author needs to do some history before publishing articles.


Steve

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